Comment 10 for bug 1320920

That's a great idea Julia - I really dislike it on Android where you have
to manually add apps to your homescreens instead of rearranging a list of
all apps. I'm not yet sure how this would combine with app categorisation
(the nested icons Selene refers to) but I'll have a think about it.

On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Julia Palandri
<email address hidden>wrote:

> I'd love to see something that each user can choose - maybe with options
> such as "default sorting", "alphabetical", " most used first", "user
> defined". I know that there's no choice that will make everyone happy,
> maybe not even one solution that will make one person happy all the time.
> By being able to select how apps are sorted - and as Jamie, I'm mostly
> thinking about Installed apps mainly-, you can solve different needs in
> different situations.
> Maybe, for everyday I'll use "most used app first". When I install
> something new, instead of searching it the first time, I can switch to
> default view, so I can easily find it. If I find myself changing the views
> a lot I might want to choose "user defined", in which case an option to
> copy the current sorting to a custom user defined sort would be sweet -
> something like this sorting *almost* does the trick, but I need to tweak it
> a bit, and not having to manually sort a lot of apps the first time to
> leave it configured as desired.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1320920
>
> Title:
> Apps scope sort order is confusing
>
> Status in Ubuntu UX bugs:
> In Progress
> Status in “unity-scope-click” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> When navigating the MyApps portion of the click scope, I never seem to
> be able to reliably find anything. It isn't alphabetical and isn't by
> click package name, but does seem to change from time to time and I
> can't figure out why (as a user-- I haven't looked at the code). I
> have 68 apps installed on my phone and have resorted now to always
> using SEARCH to find anything-- I think the usability could be
> improved dramatically by simply making 'My Apps' alphabetical by the
> string that is displayed to the user (I guess this is taken from the
> .desktop file).
>
> 'Available' currently suffers from the same problem, but there SEARCH
> seems an appropriate interface and it is my understanding that
> categories will be introduced to help here. I suggest that
> alphabetical by the string that is displayed to the user be
> implemented there too (whether it is a long list or within categories)
> unless there is some text letting you know why the order is what it is
> ('Most popular apps based on your search', etc).
>
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